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enNBC's General McCaffrey Sees Progress in Iraqhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2007/12/24/nbcs-general-mccaffrey-sees-progress-iraq
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img border="0" align="right" width="1" src="/static/2007/12/2007-12-23=NBC-NN-McCa2.jpg" height="1" /><img border="0" align="right" width="240" src="/static/2007/12/2007-12-23-NBC-NN-McCa2.jpg" height="180" />Sunday's "NBC Nightly News" featured retired General Barry McCaffrey, NBC News military analyst and "one-time war critic," as he voiced his "surprising new assessment" that conditions in Iraq have improved "dramatically" since the surge.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:23:38 +0000Brad Wilmouth17776 at http://newsbusters.orgExtra! Extra! NYT Corrects A Mistakehttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2007/10/08/extra-extra-nyt-corrects-mistake
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A September 12 NewsBusters' item, <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2007/09/12/nyt-misreports-biden-obama-exchange">NYT Misreports Biden-Obama Exchange</a>, detailed a reporting error in the New York Times' coverage of testimony delivered the previous day to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by General David Petraeus and Iraq Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The news story reported an exchange between Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), both Democratic presidential candidates:<br /></p></div></div></div>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:55:57 +0000Mike Bates16191 at http://newsbusters.orgMaher on CNN: Petraeus and Maliki ‘Stooges’ For President Bushhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2007/09/18/maher-cnn-petaeus-maliki-stooges-president-bush
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img src="/static/2007/09/2007-09-18-CNN-TSR-Maher.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="176" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="240" />Bill Maher gave an unsatirizable interview on Tuesday evening’s &quot;The Situation Room&quot; on CNN, spending a large portion of his ten-minute interview attacking, among others, General David Petraeus, Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, labeling them &quot;stooges&quot; for President Bush. When host Wolf Blitzer asked about the recent congressional testimony of the general and the ambassador, Maher parroted the MoveOn.org line. &quot;Well, it was a White House-written report. We know that. Bush has an interesting little scam going. He also quoted in his speech on Thursday night, Maliki. And he said basically that the Iraqi leadership is asking us to stay. <b>So, in other words, he puts words into his stooges' mouths, and then, he quotes them</b>.&quot;</p><p><b>Video (1:17)</b>: <a href="/static/2007/09/2007-09-18-CNN-TSR-Maher.rm">Real</a> (2.12 MB) or <a href="/static/2007/09/2007-09-18-CNN-TSR-Maher.wmv">Windows</a> (1.8 MB), plus <a href="/static/2007/09/2007-09-18-CNN-TSR-Maher.mp3">MP3</a> (601 KB)</p></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:53:09 +0000Matthew Balan15807 at http://newsbusters.orgFrank Rich Paints Petraeus as Cowardhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/09/16/frank-rich-paints-petraeus-coward
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img src="/static/2007/08/2007-09-16NYTRich2.jpg" align="right" height="180" width="143" />See <b>Update </b>at foot with list of Petraeus press appearances.</p><p>The gravest charge you can level at a military man, as MoveOn.org essentially did to Gen. Petraeus with its infamous &quot;General Betray Us&quot; ad, is to call him a traitor.</p><p>But close behind in the catalog of calumny is to call a soldier a coward. And that's effectively what Frank Rich did in his [p.p.v.] New York Times <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/opinion/16rich.html">column </a>of today.</p><p>Writes Rich [emphasis added]:</p><blockquote><p>General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker could grab an hour of prime television time only by <b>slinking into the safe foxhole of Fox News</b>, where Brit Hume chaperoned them on a gloomy, bunkerlike set before an audience of merely 1.5 million true believers. </div></div></div>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:37:57 +0000Mark Finkelstein15748 at http://newsbusters.org